Intel announced a new version of its low-end Atom microprocessor, but aimed at the market for tablet computers, as well as for a new generation of netbook computers that are even lighter than the ones being sold today.

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While the slightly faster clock speed may be a nice bragging right, at the end of the day Atom N470-based netbooks are still, well, netbooks.

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